The CEO Test

Test #6

Can You Handle a Crisis?

Avoid the predictable mistakes that trip up so many leaders.

We are writing these words in the summer of 2020, with the coronavirus crisis still holding the planet in a tight grip. In the United States, new records are set every day for the number of people who have contracted the virus, and worldwide the death toll from Covid-19 continues to grow. Trials are underway for promising vaccines, but nobody is expecting a solution until 2021, at the earliest, that will finally end this pandemic. It is the defining crisis of our time, drawing comparisons to the 1918 flu pandemic and the Great Depression, and prompting endless questions about what life will look like in the new normal on the other side. Is remote work ...